{"title":"National research and development program on interoperable database system","authors":"A. Tojo","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153679","url":null,"abstract":"The National Research and Development Program on interoperable database system has been in operation since 1986 for a six year period for establishing fundamental technology on distributed, multimedia, and reliable database systems on interoperable computer networks. The project supports some fifteen elementary research topics, as well as development of OSI implementation or functional standards by INTAP. The author includes a brief overview and background of the project with special emphasis on its impact on interoperability and open information technology, the objectives and status of the major topics under the project, and open systems related activities in Japan.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120982585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural schema integration in heterogeneous multi-database systems using the Dual Model","authors":"J. Geller, Y. Perl, E. Neuhold","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153706","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of views and schemas is an important part of database design and evolution to support complex and multiple applications sharing data. The view and schema integration methodologies proposed are driven purely by semantic considerations, and allow integration of objects only if that is valid from both semantic and structural view points. The authors discuss a new integration method called structural integration that has the advantage of being able to integrate objects that have structural similarities, even if they differ semantically. This is possible by using the object-oriented Dual Model which allows separate representation of structure and semantics. Structural integration has several advantages, including the identification of shared common structures that is important for physical database design and sharing of data and methods (code reusability).<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126601880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashok Savasere, A. Sheth, Sunit K. Gala, S. Navathe, Howard Markus
{"title":"On applying classification to schema integration","authors":"Ashok Savasere, A. Sheth, Sunit K. Gala, S. Navathe, Howard Markus","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153718","url":null,"abstract":"Discusses how the concepts of subsumption and classification (as described in the KL-ONE family of systems) can be adapted to automatically identify various relationships among classes. Classes can overlap, or be equivalent or disjoint, or one class may include another class. Computing such relationships is based on the 'subsume' function, which determines whether a given class is a superclass of another class. Relationships thus identified can be used to merge classes of two or more schemas (i.e., integrating these schemas) with the help of the classification function and other schema restructuring operators.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115204331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heterogeneous information systems: understanding integration","authors":"S. Heiler, M. Siegel, S. Zdonik","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153680","url":null,"abstract":"Research in heterogeneous database systems has provided the basis for the development of integration tools or frameworks. These tools are used to build systems that provide information from multiple disparate systems or data sources. As many as thirty commercial frameworks exist for integrating heterogeneous database systems and numerous integrated systems are being developed for organizations with multiple information source requirements. Unfortunately, among integration framework and system developers there is little agreement on the definition of integration or on how to describe the frameworks and what they do. The authors present a definition of integration and define parameters for describing, specifying, and comparing integration frameworks and integrated systems. The parameters are based on the integration space where the dimensions define the hiding or exposing of heterogeneities in source, scheme, data model, time/context and dependencies. The authors use these dimensions in specifications to define the level of integration provided by the integration framework or integrated system.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129387964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The identification and resolution of semantic heterogeneity in multidatabase systems","authors":"Doug Fang, J. Hammer, D. McLeod","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153696","url":null,"abstract":"Several aspects are given of the Remote-Exchange project at USC, which focuses on the controlled sharing and exchange of information among autonomous, heterogeneous database systems. The spectrum of heterogeneity which may exist among the components in a federation of database systems is examined, and an approach to accommodating such heterogeneity is described. An overview of the Remote-Exchange experimental system is provided.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128222427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Wakimoto, M. Shima, S. Tanaka, J. Shibayama, A. Maeda
{"title":"Knowledge-based multimedia information retrieval applied to plant diagrams","authors":"K. Wakimoto, M. Shima, S. Tanaka, J. Shibayama, A. Maeda","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153685","url":null,"abstract":"A discussion is given on a new method of multimedia information retrieval, which is applied to plant information systems. The method is based on a retrieval model which formulates each retrieval action as a transition of viewpoint in information space, where the space consists of knowledge space and data space. Following good features are derived; various types of media can be treated in an integrated way by means of knowledge space representation, and easy operations are enabled by means of visual communication between users and the system. The method is especially applicable for plant information systems because there are various types of information such as plant diagrams, sensed data and experts' knowledge, and because the man-machine interface is important to enable quick response by operators. Methods of retrieval based on similarity and on relationships which are useful as decision support facilities are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130933997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An executor for multidatabase transactions which achieves maximal parallelism","authors":"E. Cameron, L. Ness, A. Sheth","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153723","url":null,"abstract":"The authors concisely specify a executor in the logically parallel language, L.0, for a particular extended transaction model called multidatabase transactions. An executor is a program, which takes as input the data defining any particular multidatabase transaction, dynamically schedules the sub-transactions, and determines whether the multidatabase transaction succeeded or failed. In the program presented, the parallelism is the maximal amount permitted by the semantics of the multidatabase transaction. A refinement of this program could restrict the parallelism to the amount permitted by the systems executing the sub-transactions.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121032215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multidatabase recoverability and recovery","authors":"Dimitrios Georgakopoulos","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153734","url":null,"abstract":"To support global transactions in a multidatabase environment, one must coordinate the activities of multiple database management systems, that were designed for independent, stand-alone operation. The autonomy and heterogeneity of these systems present a major impediment to the direct adaptation of transaction management mechanisms developed for distributed database systems. This paper addresses the problems in multidatabase recovery. Most solutions proposed to provide multidatabase recovery are either allow incorrect results or place severe restrictions on global and local transactions. To assure that multidatabase recovery preserves the consistency of a multidatabase system. The author introduces a multidatabase recoverability requirement. He also describes a recovery mechanism that takes advantage of the local recovery in the participating database systems by minimizing the replication of recovery tasks.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130359543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FINDIT: a server based approach to finding information in large scale heterogeneous databases","authors":"A. Bouguettaya, R. King, Kequn Zhao","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153704","url":null,"abstract":"Finding information in large scale autonomous heterogeneous databases is an issue that has been virtually unexplored in database research. The authors describe a new approach for finding information in a large scale network of autonomous and heterogeneous databases. The system relies on an object-oriented architecture to educate users about the available space of information and help them locate information sources. The system, named FINDIT, accommodates database autonomy as well as heterogeneity. To ensure information abstraction and encapsulation the system is divided into three categories, namely, user servers, database servers, and databases. User servers are geared towards satisfying users needs while database servers are in charge of managing databases.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131383369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transaction specification in multidatabase systems based on parallel logic programming","authors":"E. Kuehn, F. Puntigam, A. Elmagarmid","doi":"10.1109/IMS.1991.153693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IMS.1991.153693","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of multiple autonomous and heterogeneous database systems into one multidatabase system requires a powerful language which serves both for specifying queries and transactions. The authors introduce a parallel Prolog-based query language which serves well as a concurrent specification language for the representation of a recently proposed transaction model called 'flex transactions'. They describe the extended language by using examples and show its advantages in comparison to existing parallel logic languages. A prototype implementation of this language (VPL Vienna Parallel Logic Language) has been developed at the University of Technology Vienna and is under investigation.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":376969,"journal":{"name":"[1991] Proceedings. First International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121799481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}